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Setting up Active Directory via PowerShell
By Michael Sammels In today’s article, we are going to discuss setting up Active Directory via...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 06/08/2016
Catch Up: SQL Server for the DBA
By Chris Testa-O'Neill Are you a DBA looking to catch up on SQL Server 2012 or 2014? Maybe you want...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 06/06/2016
The fast path to an Azure IoT project
By Microsoft UK Azure IoT Team, Whether you’ve been working with the Internet of Things (IoT) for...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 06/03/2016
Bot's it all about - the rise of bot technology
How we interact with those around us is changing. The once popular worlds of social media and phone...
Author: Gavin Payne Date: 06/02/2016
SQL Server 2016 is here!
The explosion of data is changing the world around us at a breath taking speed. Businesses are...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 06/01/2016
Creating a new Rembrandt with big data
By Dan Oliver, Editor-in-chief at Creative Bloq Big data. Machine learning. As emerging areas of...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 05/25/2016
Resetting Windows Explorer
By Michael Sammels In today's article, I am going to be explaining how to reset the File Explorer in...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 05/25/2016
DevOps Technology in a Windows World
By Elton Stoneman. Elton spoke at WinOps (24th-25th May) on DevOps Technology in a Windows World The...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 05/24/2016
Cloud App Discovery: The best kept secret in Enterprise Mobility
By Emily Coates Emily Coates is a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft UK. She specialises in...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 05/20/2016
Cloud computing: Growth and predictions
By Alex Dover The rise in cloud computing has seen new technologies developed in order to keep up...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 05/17/2016
What is R?
By Harry Eagles, Editor R is a programming language and an open-source statistical computing...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 05/12/2016
Big Barriers to Big Data Adoption
Big data is often accompanied by tremendous benefits, but various challenges and setbacks usually...
Author: Rick Delgado Date: 05/11/2016
Four tips for transitioning to the cloud
You know you want to move to the cloud, but you don’t know where to begin or how to budget for it....
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 05/05/2016
Office 365 customisation for your user
By Colin Chaplin So you’ve setup ADFS, WAP, Dirsync? Now make the users feel at home When looking at...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 05/04/2016
How the Retail Industry is Using Big Data Wisely
Big data can be used in the strangest of ways and the retail industry has usually been the heaviest...
Author: Rick Delgado Date: 04/28/2016
Tips and tricks for deploying Office 365
By Alan Richards, Office 365 MVP In the 6 years that I have been an MVP a lot has changed on the...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 04/26/2016
Catch Up: SQL Server for the BI Professional
By Chris Testa-O'Neill, SQLBits This year’s SQLBits - Europe’s largest Microsoft Data Platform...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 04/25/2016
The Scientific Journey of Database Systems Research
By Victoria Holt, Data Platform Architect and Senior DBA at Eduserv There is a need to tell the...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 04/22/2016
Preparing for exam 70-347 - Enabling Office 365 Services
If you’re looking to develop or certify your skills with Office 365, now is an excellent time....
Author: Edward Jones - Firebrand Training Date: 04/21/2016
SQL Server on Linux: Supporting the multi-platform journey
In early March 2016, the big news the Microsoft data platform world was waiting for was the release...
Author: Gavin Payne Date: 04/15/2016
Catch Up: SQLBits Azure Jumpstart for Data Professionals
By Chris Testa-O'Neill on behalf of SQLBits This year’s SQLBits - Europe’s largest Microsoft Data...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 04/13/2016
Windows forensics: Recovering from an attack
By Nazar Tymoshyk To avoid wordy, round-about introductions, let me get straight to the point: if...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 04/11/2016
PowerShell: My top 10 CmdLets to build a travelling lab
So it doesn’t take much scanning of my Blog and other ramblings to realise I am a great fan of...
Author: Ed Baker (UK Evangelist) Date: 04/11/2016
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
By Martin Percival, Senior Solutions Architect at Red Hat Red Hat is ‘the world’s leading provider...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 04/08/2016
Licensing Logic: Short term subscriptions
By David Cattanach, Microsoft Volume Licensing team You may be familiar with Microsoft cloud...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 04/06/2016
Build 2016: Day 1 Keynote – At a glance
I’ve been looking forward to hearing the announcements that will be made at Build, especially it is...
Author: marcus robinson technical evangelist microsoft Date: 03/31/2016
Dealing With Security Risks From Upper Management
The push to secure company data and networks has never been stronger, in part because the dangers...
Author: Rick Delgado Date: 03/21/2016
5 steps to become a DevOps Engineer
By Prism Digital and the DevOpsGuys DevOps is the hot hiring trend right now. As more and more IT...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 03/17/2016
6 differences between VS 2015 Enterprise and Pro
As we like to change edition names and move functionality around from time to time, here’s a concise...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 03/16/2016
The invisible technology behind the homes of our future
The Cambridge Science Festival is running from 7th to 20th March, and to compliment that Dave...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 03/09/2016
SQL Bits XV: not just about SQL
This is a shameless plug for SQL Bits but this is important stuff so please don’t click close just...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 03/03/2016
Managing the security of hybrid clouds
Gavin Payne is a principal architect for Coeo, a SQL Server and Azure professional services company,...
Author: Gavin Payne Date: 03/01/2016
The Life of an IT Pro: Past , present and future
In my day to day role I am constantly reminded of the fast pace of our new mobile-first, cloud-first...
Author: Ed Baker (UK Evangelist) Date: 03/01/2016
If you haven't got a question then Machine Learning is not the answer
I am in the middle of preparing for some more events the next big one being a day of machine...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 02/26/2016
The TechNet UK Blog Awards
2015 was the TechNet UK Blog’s strongest year since its formation some five-and-a-half years ago. We...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 02/25/2016
Introduction to Azure Resource Manager Templates for the IT Pro
The Problem Conflict between software development teams and IT operations is familiar to many of us....
Author: marcus robinson technical evangelist microsoft Date: 02/25/2016
History of Windows
Looking through Windows – a history of the world’s biggest OS It all started on 20th November 1985....
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 02/24/2016
How to use Arduino with the Azure IoT hub
By James Brand, Lead Developer at Intellihub.io James from Intellihub.IO, one of the companies in...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 02/20/2016
Chief Information Officers: Pioneering change
Rick Delgado feels blessed to have had a successful career in the tech industry and has recently...
Author: Rick Delgado Date: 02/17/2016
PowerShell function to enable WinRM over HTTPS on an Azure Resource Manager VM
You may have seen my previous posts detailing how to enable WinRM over HTTPS on an Azure Resource...
Author: marcus robinson technical evangelist microsoft Date: 02/12/2016
Create a Custom Script Extension for an Azure Resource Manager VM using PowerShell
Following on from my previous two posts regarding WinRM over HTTPS the next stage was to automate...
Author: marcus robinson technical evangelist microsoft Date: 02/12/2016
The online exam experience
By Chris Testa-O’Neill, Data Platform MVP and founder & Principal Consultant at Claribi. Chris...
Author: Harry Eagles Date: 02/11/2016
Create a Network Security Group Rule using PowerShell
My last post,...
Author: marcus robinson technical evangelist microsoft Date: 02/11/2016
Configuring WinRM over HTTPS to enable PowerShell remoting
PowerShell remoting allows machines to be remotely managed using PowerShell. PowerShell remoting is...
Author: marcus robinson technical evangelist microsoft Date: 02/11/2016